Photos from A Recent EBT Trip

[Amalynn]

These are all leaf springs they were making near the end of service. Apparently as costs were cut and money ran out the track quality suffered, and they started breaking leaf springs left and right trying to still run on it, so they just made lots of spares.


These are pulleys that were on the floor for machinery, I think.


There was an oven in the blacksmith shop, too. Check out that counterweight. It's a coupler pocket for link and pin couplers, repurposed.


Another wheelset storage track. Originally the rails were set on two 36" gauges to stagger the wheelsets for space efficiency. During the Kovalchick Era they were using some of the EBT's wheelset tooling to help with scrapping standard gauge cars, so they re-gauged a set of rails to sit on a standard gauge spacing for storing the axles.


In the foundry, here's a gigantic gantry crane.


And here's the foundry's furnace. Apparently it's also in good enough shape that it could be fixed up given sufficient interest in the casting process's industrial history. The wooden cribbing on the top left is the charging floor for setting up the furnace for a blast.


A bunch of scrap potbelly stoves? They're basically all cracked and ruined.


Mold box with a wooden pattern on the left and cast iron firebox grate on the right.


This is a small furnace for casting brass and bronze.